y3 is my personal blog, therefore I reserve the right to choose which comments are approved. Comments that are not relevant, off-topic, or off the point are not likely to be published. There are many issues to discuss in the deaf community, so it’s incredibly easy for things to go off on a tangent. If [...]

I’ve been in middle of a cross-country move, and with Thanksgiving dinner being prepared, I’ve slowed down. Being busy, the headlines of the 26 people being arrested did not escape my attention. Of course it did not; it’s probably the biggest news in the deaf community since the Gallaudet protests of 2006. It certainly ranks [...]

This YouTube video was originally published on YouTube/DeafVIDEO.TV on September 29. I’m re-publishing it on my blog because the two cognitive biases are also affected by blogs, IMO. Watch the video and share your thoughts!

Ella, I strongly urge you to return to your post as CAD secretary. First, you walkout of DeafVIDEO.TV, and you’re now abandoning your elected position at CAD. You were nominated and elected by people who believed in you. You’ve been a long-time CAD board member. I admire your passion for Deafhood Foundation, but what are [...]

If you haven’t yet, please first read Did I Lose or Win? to understand the title. My wife Debby just accepted a position at the NAD as an attorney. So we’re moving east. She said to me it’s such a big move. I replied that it wasn’t as much of a big move as when [...]

Last week at the Purple Trailblazers Gala, there were 1000+ people in audience, plus more watching via DeafNation’s webcast. Sitting in the audience were national leaders, such as Nancy Bloch, Alan Hurwitz, Ron Stern, Roz Rosen, and I’ll go as far as saying one of the trailblazers is a national leader: Dr. MJ Bienvenu. I [...]

When my mother learned my older sister was deaf, she turned to a deaf distant cousin and asked what she should do to best educate her daughter. The deaf cousin, Michael Cashman, said “Look at me. I’m doing fine. What do I use?”. My mother answered, “ASL.” It was from his response that my parents [...]

YouTube has both a subscription service and block feature. Facebook allows you to choose who your friends are. Twitter can be either public or private. DeafRead has DeafRead Hide. Once you hide a blog, you do not see its posts as long as you are signed in. DeafVIDEO.TV has a block feature that prevents a [...]

A group of people tried to use the term “audism” to ban others from DeafVIDEO.TV and DeafRead. There were people who were vlogging about deafhood and cochlear implants. To the group’s disgust, deafhood was not supported and cochlear implants were supported. The truth is it wasn’t about audism at all. It was about censoring them. [...]

I’ll start by telling you I didn’t plan any of this. It all began with Patti’s (second) boycott post. What I thought was a healthy dialogue that resulted in a good agreement–was broken by patti’s impatience. I was being pushed. I was peeved. One thing led to another. I will have you know that I [...]